S. A: FOUR PEOPLE HAVE DIED AFTER A CAR WAS SWEPT AWAY AT AN OVERFLOWING BRIDGE IN THE MAKOTOPONG RIVER NEAR SEBAYENG.(PHOTO).
Four people have died after a car was swept away at an overflowing bridge in the Makotopong River near Sebayeng. Police recovered the bodies after a blue Renault Kwid carrying five occupants was pulled into the river during heavy water flow on Sunday morning, 8 March 2026. One passenger escaped from the vehicle and alerted police and emergency services. Police say the car was travelling along the Madiga–Makotopong gravel road when it overturned at the flooded bridge and was dragged into the river. The Provincial Search and Rescue team recovered the first body on Sunday. The victim was identified as Lebapa Petrus Mochitele, 27, from Madiga Village. EMS personnel declared him dead at the scene. Search operations resumed on Monday with the SAPS Water Wing Unit, EMS Search and Rescue, the Fire and Rescue Department, and an EMS helicopter. Teams located the submerged vehicle and recovered three more bodies. The victims were identified as Seobi Dikgale, 33, Betty Makokoane, 22, and Shel...
Obalufemi Obadeyi,a fake officer of the Lagos state Traffic Management Authority,LASTMA,has been remanded in Kirikiri prison,Lagos,over extortion of motorists.He was arrested on Saturday 28 December,2013 and was later arraigned before an Ikeja magistrate court for impersonating as an official of the agency to extort money from unwary motorists.Obalufemi Obadeyi,33years old graduate of Business Administration from the Yaba college of Technology,was employed into the Lagos state civil service in 2002,before he was dismissed by LASMA for misconduct in August 2006.After his dismissal,he was said to have sewn a new LASMA uniform and changed his name to avoid being detected.The father of one was arrested by the parol team of LASMA after receiving a tip off from some motorists who reported illegal activities of some one parading himself as an official of the agency while extorting money from them at Ojuelegba area of Lagos.The suspect after being arrested said that he was advised on dismissal from service to hand over all the agency's paraphernalia in his possession,but deliberately held onto his old identity card he had declared missing before his dismissal.The magistrate presiding over the case,Mrs Dan Oni,ruled that the accused be remanded in Kirikiri prisons till 16 January,pending when sentence would be passed.
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